Now For Sale Nike+iPod Serial + USB Adapter = Tracker Device
02.28.07 - 01:25pm
You know that whole Nike+iPod security flaw which recently had bloggers everywhere sending out warnings of how easy it
would be for a stalker to track a runners movements through the device, perhaps making it much easier to do them harm, even if you change your route daily? Well they no longer have to create the device they can instead simply buy it from Spark Fun - their new USB Adapter.
The USB adapter will not only track the ID Nike+iPod you’re looking for, it will show you all the runners out running within range of your little tracking device. The website specifies, however that this is not what it is designed for, except of course to “allow easy creation of proximity based projects and running/workout research.” Since, naturally you need to know others workouts to make your own better - of course - rather than ask Candice how she stays so thin I will secretly monitor her workouts. Spark Fun also says they want it to be used for cat ID’s saying “We really want to attach these to our cats and make an ID controlled cat-door-lock system. ‘Are you Carlos? No? You can’t come in.”
